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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Open to more than one interpretation: an ambiguous reply.
  2. adj. Doubtful or uncertain: "The theatrical status of her frequently derided but constantly revived plays remained ambiguous” ( Frank Rich).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of doubtful or uncertain nature; wanting clearness or definiteness; difficult to comprehend or distinguish; indistinct; obscure.
  2. Of doubtful purport; open to various interpretations; having a double meaning; equivocal.
  3. Wavering; undecided; hesitating: as, “ambiguous in all their doings,” Milton, Eikono-klastes (1649), p. 239.
  4. Using obscure or equivocal language.
  5. Synonyms Equivocal, etc. (see obscure), indeterminate, indefinite, indistinct, not clear, not plain, amphibolous, dubious, vague, enigmatical, dark, blind.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Open to multiple interpretations.
  2. adj. Vague and unclear.
  3. adj. Of persons: hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
  2. adj. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
  3. adj. having more than one possible meaning

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ambiguus ("moving from side to side, of doubtful nature"), from ambigere ("to go about, wander, doubt"), from ambi- ("around, about, on both sides") + agere ("to drive, move"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin ambiguus, uncertain, from ambigere, to go about : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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